Little_Birdie: "i'd go as far as to say the existance of anything is proof that something lies beyond thei mortal coil" I'll have to ask you to paraphrase that as I didn't understand it. The evidence we've uncovered of the universe says this is likely true. Humans aren't some seperate entity in reality. They are part of it. When I wave my arms around, I am reality-rendered information changing position. The interesting implication of being a part of reality is that reality may be predisposed towards self-awareness. After all, we are points of consciousness.
It would appear that the only evidence in mankind and nature is nature itself. Indications of something beyond have not been found. Please share exactly the evidence you support which we fail to see?
you see it as well as i do you just don't reconize it the site of anything, true, honerable, right, pure, lovely,or of good repute, is proof to a beliver
Well, that was just an idea of what I feel, but the idea could be different, still the feeling is the same. Maybe we just can't explain it in wordly terms...
god means creator, right? did your god create the universe? how can something immaterial interract with something material?
men have no free will then,we are just puppets in His game, Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! how do those invisible strings on your arms and legs feel?
his own desgn he knew every posiblility and spun every sub atomic particle in the begining so as to get things to where they are today, its not that he had no control he just set the "program" to work with all the nessicary imformation and materials
He is Volition, Driven. He is Desire, Realized. He is Will, Rendered. He is Word, Incarnate. He is Intention, Revealed. He is Karma, Manifest. No... Actually it doesn't. Yes and no. The God I was referring to is one who is the incarnation of mankind's volition, desire, will. words and intention. Now, of course, you can take this concept further back to the deeper level of the Vedic akasha and prana if you wish, and call God the fundamental force. Do you not understand what I wrote, do you not agree with it or have you simply not it? If you don't understand, please ask questions. If you don't agree, please elaborate. If you didn't read it, please stop wasting my time. Which of: volition, desire, will. words or intention are material? Do they not interract with the material? Why do people buy Mercedes? Because of Mercedes reputation and because of their own reputation. Is reputation material? What was the impetus for Michelangelo sculpting David? He had an idea, he had the talent, he had the will and he had the drive. Which of these is material? What resulted from them? Carved stone - the material. Karma is not materail, yet it influences us every moment of every day. Every experience you have ever had has helped to shape your ideas, ideals and self, and each of those interractions has, in turn, been the continuation in an infinite chain of events that will impacts millions of other people. None of this is material. All if this is has a significant effect on the material. I couldn't disagree more. While we have countless influences in our lives pushing and pulling us, at the ends of ti all we have to decide if were are going to make a left or right on Maple Street. You may influence someone to take drugs, but ultimately, whether or not they pick up the crack pipe, and whether or not they put it down is up to them. I wouldn't know. You're the one who is convinced we have no free will, you tell me.
Anthropomorphization! Everything (x) = he? Where x is whatever it is exactly that you're trying to get at.
What we think of as immaterial and material, are not separate, but directly inter-related. The universe is generally thought of as purely material. I think that what is material falls short of including that which is abstract, yet that which is abstract exists. IF it does indeed exist, it is part of our universe. As such, the material and immaterial are both part of the same thing and as such.. interact as they must according to the properties of that thing (the universe)
I read and understood that, trying to compensate for the difference in my objection with x. Perhaps not quite clearly. Everything(x) was intended to represent whatever subset of everything you're talking about. My notation is shit I think. But regardless.. Yes, because you are using the term "he" regarding something that is not a person. That is anthropomorphization. You are anthropomorphizing an aspect of nature, labelling it god and referencing it as a person.
Excuse me for my confusion regarding the "Anthropomorphization!" comment. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I got the impression that it was some sort of revelation or accusation that I was supposed to defend mysef from. Like Toto just ran up and pulled the sheet off the Wizard. I thought it was palinly obvious that I was intentionally and blatantly using the tactic to get the point across clearly. Maybe I was mistaken. Have you read Æsop's fables? When you do, do you say, "Frogs can't talk, damnit, this is obviously all bullshit."? I hope not, because if you do, I am afraid you are missing out on a lot. I still don't understand what you meant by the everthing(x) or whatever it was. Can you please break it down in english, rather than Mathematics? literal people are scary, man literal people scare me out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look, it sez right here, see!" Literal - ani difranco
Okay then. That was all I was saying. I was trying to say the same thing in shorter notation that as I mentioned, I now think was shit. So long as you know what you're doing. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! What exactly then, is the point? You think "god" is "kharma manifest"? Is that it? Is there something else I've missed?
